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Vinony

saltine

noun

  1. type of square cracker
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /sɔlˈtin/

noun

Etymology: Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.

  1. A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
  2. A euphemism for cracker ("white person").